Basically the whole top is a ****-show, continuing from last age :)
Here's a probably ill-informed run-down (also biased, naturally, since I keep a prov alive in Mangos):
Last age:
BB keeps Emeriti locked in eoa-war. Mike makes deal to farm out his kd to Barco for them to crown over Emeriti with BBs blessing. Leading us to...
This age:
Emeriti
- Locked in war with Barco for a long, long time. Seeing their chances to crown diminish they reset provs post war. BB was in line to farm and had trained up and are unhappy.
Sparta 1 (Matilja)
- Wars their allies Sparta2 in a mutually beneficial war OOP
- Farms out to their allies Sparta2 in a late-age war - Gets actioned by Devs
Sparta 2 (Bart)
- See sparta 1
Barco
- Arranges a war ending up mutually beneficial with Divinity (some claim fake war, others don't. Lots of dmg done in war, but very, very little hitting)
- Deal breaks Mango by noticing into Mangos conflict with BB
Divinity
- See Barco
- Noticies into police action/ongoing Mango/Barco conflict (see Mango)
- Arranges GB on Mango.
BB
- Accepts policing of Barco by signing a CF with Mango
- Deal breaks Sparta 1 when they joined Mango in policing Barco. No razing of off policing acres (yet).
Mango
- Octobrev impersonates Coss and tricks a player to give button to Mango a few days(?) into conflict. Early-mid age.
- Waves Barco when Barco noticed into Mangos ongoing conflict with BB. Acres gained: ~8k acres (hits minus LL). Time spent: ~2 weeks?
- Waves Sparta 2 (Sparta claim deal break, Mango claims no CF) to get away from Divs notice into their conflict/policing of Barco
Sleepy
- Innocent victims!?
Might have missed some dodgy play. Other can add :)
Above leading to the GB of Mango. 10 kingdoms joins in. All of the above + others. Justification of GB is tricky to decipher from logs and forum posts. But something like this:
- Mango = CR = sh1tplaying scums (most common reason stated)
- Octobrevs stunt
- Mango LS not booting Octobrev for Octobrev stunt
- Mango didn't raze off policing acres
- Mango should have stopped policing earlier
- Mango deal broke Barco, not the other way around
- Mango deal broke Sparta 2
- Mango was colluding with Sparta (1 or 2 or both) to win age
- Mango was promising Sparta 2 a war win with Barco for helping the policing
- Mango was using policing Barco to dodge BB war
- Mango was using policing acres to pump to war Div or BB post a potential war between them
Current standing is: Mango in war with Sparta 2. Mango not hitting (hitting = easier GB). Div and Barco trad and raze in. Most other kingdoms took a lot of fat acres on their own key provinces and seem to be satisfied with that and stopped the policing.
Might have missed some claims, or misunderstood them. So feel free to correct me :) Tried to be reasonably objective.
Now for bias!! :)
Frankly, reasons given for GB (aside from the octo manoeuvre. Some proper **** play there!) seems very weak. Lot's of guilt by association ("They are CR, they deserve whats coming for old sins", "any kd with Octo or Dubai or Mike or whatshisname deserve a GB by default), based on "what ifs" ("Mango would have done this and that if we hadn't started GB") and ridiculous demands (stopping policing without Barco offering any diplomatic or end to conflict is impossible ofc - would only mean razes into war or what have you, razing acres before policing is over is unheard of and so strategically stupid, and how do you even promise war wins, or even wars with 3rd parties that hate your guts). Some are hypocritical (BB have yet to raze their policing acres from Sparta 2 if I'm not mistaken, and the collusion between kingdoms in the top is obviously far reaching outside of Mangos). And in the midst of all of above **** play, how do you find the nerf to throw the first rock and claim moral superiority?
Also think that GBing based on deductive reasoning (A, therefor probably B) sets a dangerous precedence. Instead of GB over actions done, you GB over actions and events assumed to come. Who do we trust with those judgements?
So that's my lil rant. I probably confused most things and misunderstood the rest :)